Sinha (59) was found to have contracted the viral disease two days ago, following which he was admitted to Beliaghata ID hospital, the official said
Addressing a virtual rally at Shaheed Minar ground from New Delhi, he said West Bengal needed peace for development.
Ghosh, who suffered from several comorbidities, was hospitalised a few months ago due to deterioration of his health condition.
The Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday announced to suspend all of his public rallies in West Bengal amid rise in Covid cases. “In view of the Covid situation, I am suspending all my public rallies in West Bengal. I would advise all political leaders to think deeply about the[Read More…]
Reaching out to the two numerically strong communities which can infuence the outcome of assembly elections in many seats, Shah said a Rs 100 crore fund will be created for their welfare if the BJP is voted to power in the state.
Considered as the prominent left ideologue in the country, Sitaram Yechury said that for the present BJP leadership, winning polls on all costs could be a priority, but for the Left Front and its allies, the lives of people are more precious.
Speaking at a rally at Dabgram-Fulbari in Jalpaiguri district, the Trinamool Congress supremo ridiculed Prime Minister Narendra Modis recent claim that BJP had already won a 100 seats in the four phases of the election to the 294-seat assembly.
A gruesome image of an injured sub-inspector attacked by a langur in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad has surfaced with false claims. Image mostly shared by BJP leaders claims it as one of the Central Industrial Security Force personnel injured during the poll-related violence in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar on April 10, 2021.
Sharing excerpts of Kishor’s chat with some journalists, BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya claimed that “TMC’s election was just thrown away!”
The incident took place in Sitalkuchi area when voting was underway, a senior district police officer said.
Insisting that people should bargain for more, he urged voters to ask for Rs 5,000 if offered Rs 500.
The agitation was led by actor-turned-politician Srabanti Chatterjee, who is contesting from the Behala Paschim assembly constituency on a BJP ticket, party sources said.
Asserting that Banerjee has problems with people sporting a Tilak and wearing saffron, Modi said the TMC supremo”s appeal to the Muslims reflects that her “minority votes are slipping out of her hands.”
According to sources in the commission the sector officer Tapan Sarkar, who was in-charge of Sector 17 in Uluberia seat, had spent the night at a relative’s house who happened to be a Trinamool Congress leader.
“Maa breathed her last around 2:55 am. She died of kidney failure,” her daughter Poulomi Bose said.
Two more fatalities – one in Kolkata and other in neighbouring North 24 Parganas — raised the toll in the state to 10,331, the department said in its bulletin.
Uttam Dolui, 48, was at a local club in Hariharpur in the district’s Keshpur area along with a few others when around 10-15 people allegedly attacked him with sharp weapons, they said.
Riding a bike, Adhikari went to the Nandanayak Bar Primary School around 7.30 to cast his vote.
Shah, while talking to reporters at a party office in Nandigram, said the saffron camp”s victory margin “should be so big that no politician will dare to fool the masses with false promises ever again”.
A video, which went viral Monday, showed the singer- turned BJP leader purportedly slapping the man who had repeatedly asked him to start serious campaigning on the field instead of posing before TV cameras and giving bytes
Amid the furore over the death of an 82-year-old “mother of a BJP worker” in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said she does not support violence against women and is not aware of the real reason behind the death and wondered why Union Home Minister Amit Shah remains[Read More…]
The high-stakes constituency in Purba Medinipur district will go to the polls in the second phase on April 1.
Mahato, the former convenor of the Maoist-backed People Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), was nabbed from his residence in Jhargram district by an NIA team comprising of 40-45 personnel late on Saturday, hours after he exercised his franchise.
The Congress and CPI-M-led Left Front, after ruling for most of the first six decades after independence, have been pushed to the margins of Bengal’s politics in recent years.
NCP sources said that Pawar will address public meeting and also meet Trinamool supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The first phase of Pawar’s campaigning will be for three days.